How can I move this tv ?

[redux2redux]

Buy a new TV from a place that will deliver and take the old one away.

 

[CJDave]

Yank that antique down by the cord and sweep up the mess. CJDave.

 

[TractorJeff]

Duct Tape the Glass, then 2 Guys can lift it down standing on Ladders. If it falls the Duct Tape will hold the Glass!
OR
Push the Bed under it, then after Taping, Push!

 

[ezover]

So very wrong.

even better 25k, no chute

 

[LS6 Tommy]

The front of that Trinitron tube is something like 2" thick leaded crystal, but at the back, it's surprisingly thin.

When I was younger I shot an old 32" RCA tube TV dead center from about 15' with a field point arrow and my compound bow strung at 80#. The aluminum arrow shaft collapsed. The TV got a little mark on the glass.

Tommy

 

[Lassen Forge]

We shot an old Zenith with a 30-30... the implosion was not what I expected... Still it was pretty cool.

 

[Innovate1]

This all reminds me of when TVs were substantial pieces of furniture. Dave Barry did a humor column on bringing back TV production to the US or some such quite a while back. Said he located the only person left in the US that knew anything about building TVs and they said first you need about 12 board feet of good walnut.
Think they underestimated on the wood.

 

[LeonardY]

This and a fire extinguisher.

This is a 6mm plastic bb mini gun.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

This and a fire extinguisher.

This is a 6mm plastic bb mini gun.

It was an interesting video, but the comment about the capacitors is BS. They discharge relatively quickly after the TV is unplugged. The danger is in the CRT anode itself. It works in a similar fashion to a capacitor and can hold a charge for a reasonably long time. A retired friend who was a real, come to the house TV repairman, explained the danger to me many years ago when he worked on an old TV that we got free with the house.

That video gave also me a headache. Maybe they can redo it in an even lower resolution?

Tommy

 

[bwringer]

Is anyone else CONSUMED with curiosity about what will finally happen with this TV? I check this thread daily hoping for the rest of the story.

Why is it 12' in the air?

How did it get there in the first place?

How will it get down?

Will it explode?

Can we get pics?

 

[Red 17]

I was delighted to find a couple old TV chassis, tubes intact, in my kid's preschool class. They were letting the kids poke, prod, and pound on them. I explained the implosion risk which was met with look of shock and disbelief. Can't say I followed up....

As to OP I would use a couple step ladders and some lumber to secure the TV and lower it via tilting or stepped lowering. Maybe a rope and pulley setup. Good idea to tape it up also. That and a heavy plastic bag, maybe a strong burlap or canvas bag as a way to hook it on a board or the rope.

As to how it got there, I can see that as someone's plan to have a watchable TV up out of the way. Got there via brute force and ignorance combined with clever positioning of muscle power. It will get down via gravity with assistance and resistance provided by the same combination used to lift it, it will explode, pics would be good.

 

[walta]

260 pounds?

40 inches = 325#
36 inches = 190#
32 inch = 165#


Walta

 

[Maui]

Whatever is required to lower it down, it probably pales in comparison the amount of effort it took to lift it up there.

 

[rodm1]

I just lifted my Sony and the case just crumbled. You might not be able to even movie it.

 

[JRC3]

Sounds to me like the bedroom needs and extra closet with an 8' ceiling inside it. Or a vent free gas firplace...

...You get he idea.

 

[nh_yota]

Just leave it up there and glue a new flat panel TV onto the front of it.

 

[JRC3]

Just leave it up there and glue a new flat panel TV onto the front of it.

Hell yeah, dawg...That's trailer park-101.

 

[nh_yota]

Hell yeah, dawg...That's trailer park-101.

Oddly enough, my parents had a setup just like that FOR YEARS! Back in the mid-80's when I was a kid my dad bought a Sony console TV with the fake wood grain cabinet for the sitting room off the kitchen. After about 10 years the tube started to fail (bad coloring) and it finally died altogether around the time I was in college (2000-ish).

Not wanting to fix it or buy a new one, he took an even older spare TV (with the dials) and sat it on top for a few more years until he decided to turn the console TV into a cabinet by removing all of the innards so he could stick the cable box and VCR inside on a shelf.

Eventually he bought a new flat panel HDTV and sat it on top of the old console TV and it remained that way until my parents sold the house in 2017.

 

[pmiranda]

It's a TV-Stand, not a TV Stand.

 

[fitter30]

Since its a old tv why not take it apart and haul it down in pieces

 

[rlitman]

It was an interesting video, but the comment about the capacitors is BS. They discharge relatively quickly after the TV is unplugged. The danger is in the CRT anode itself. It works in a similar fashion to a capacitor and can hold a charge for a reasonably long time. A retired friend who was a real, come to the house TV repairman, explained the danger to me many years ago when he worked on an old TV that we got free with the house.

That video gave also me a headache. Maybe they can redo it in an even lower resolution?

Tommy

I had a rather large electrolytic cap that was pulled from service sitting quietly on my desk for several years. In use, it would have been charged up to 24V, but we had quickly discharged it when it was pulled.

Well, one day, a piece of metal fell across its terminals and shorted it creating a fantastic arc and partly melting one of the terminals. All I can guess is that the polarization of the electrolyte was enough to bring the voltage up sufficiently, and the leakage was low enough that it could hold onto that charge for more than a couple of years.

 

[Thirdyfivepickup]

I'm surprised no one mentioned this. They make harnesses especially for bedrooms. Mounts to the ceiling over the bed used for lifting heavy things. Dad joked he used it to get Mom out of bed in the mornings.

You could always mount it to the ceiling in front of the TV

 

[Paco Pena]

Drywall over it and hang a modern one.

Paco

 

[pmiranda]

If you want to drywall over it, you'll have to find where the power outlet gets its juice and disconnect that permanently. Otherwise you'd have a live, inaccessible, junction box which is bad mojo... like building a shop on an ancient indian burial ground.

 

[JRC3]

Framing and drywall was a joke.

 

[pmiranda]

Framing and drywall was a joke.

Maybe not. When we moved into our house, the previous owners had a 30"+ TV in a cubby above the direct-vent fireplace between two big shelving units. We didn't need the shelves so I paid a contractor to remove one of them and drywall over the old TV opening. I would like to think he did it right but I seriously doubt it, and years later when we had to replace the fireplace unit I got a sparky to rewire everything correctly.

 

[Two Speed]

I'd just lean an extension ladder to it at as shallow an angle as possible.
Climb the ladder and pull the TV towards me onto the ladder and slide it down.

Y'all seriously underestimate the heaviness and awkward bulk that is a sony trinitron.

Since its a old tv why not take it apart and haul it down in pieces

The weight is all in the tube. The face glass is easily twice the thickness of regular t.v.s, Even if you had just the tube it would be a heavy brute to wrestle down. You could smash the tube after giving the neck a whack, but you will have one serious cleanup mess on your hands.

We used a genie lift whenever we could.

Alex.

 

[pmiranda]

A lift is the safe way to do it. They rent pretty cheap. I think somebody covered that a few pages back.
I still maintain the best way is to protect the wall and floor and yank it off while recording it for our entertainment.
No matter what I bet the edge of the shelf it's on is going to get damaged so you might as well make it worth our while. Just don't be under the damn thing.

 

[ddawg16]

The ***** is not down yet?

Is this thread going to turn into the 'cabinets to the wrong house' thread?

 

[2Fast]

Cover the opening in plastic so it is pretty well sealed up, or put some heavy duty garbage bags around it. Smack the thing (maybe more than once) with a sledge hammer. Carefully remove broken glass and clean up

 

[In2toys]

Had a sony like that once, never again... like was mentioned, they are heavy, unwieldy bastards

 

[danski0224]

Y'all seriously underestimate the heaviness and awkward bulk that is a Sony Trinitron.

We used a genie lift whenever we could.

Alex.

Yes to being quite heavy and difficult to grab onto and move.

I can lift a 32" XBR, barely, by myself, and get it onto a furniture dolly to move around.

A lift is the only way to get it down from 12 feet up. I wouldn't do it with less than 3 people: one to hold the lift, one on each side of the TV.

If the shelf is recessed, a traditional A frame ladder will probably put you too far away to reach it safely.

Make sure that the lift goes high enough... sounds stupid, until it doesn't...

 

[Leaflessshadetree]

Y'all seriously underestimate the heaviness and awkward bulk that is a sony trinitron.

I remember thinking that when I moved it from it from the truck, unpacked it. Carried it to the bedroom and put it in the cabinet.

I'm not a big guy and was younger then (5'8" 160lbs and 45 years old).
Still I managed to get it done.

I can see 2 guys. No way I could imagine 5-7 guys carrying a TV.

 

[Docbentley]

I remember thinking that when I moved it from it from the truck, unpacked it. Carried it to the bedroom and put it in the cabinet.

I'm not a big guy and was younger then (5'8" 160lbs and 45 years old).
Still I managed to get it done.

I can see 2 guys. No way I could imagine 5-7 guys carrying a TV.

like lots of guvmt jobs, 3-6 of them will be supervisors!!

 

[CoogarXR]

Had a sony like that once, never again...

I don't think "again" is happening for any of us. Not like you can run down to wal-mart and buy a Sony CRT TV, lol.

Heck, my 60" plasma weighs about 200lbs, and it literally took 3 of us to hang it on the wall. One on each side on step-ladders, and one in the middle underneath to guide it onto the angle-iron bracket that my welder friend made for me. But I digress, they don't even make heavy plasma TVs anymore.

Heck, I don't think they make ANY heavy TVs anymore. My 55" LED TV is probably 20lbs. I think the box it came in weighed more than the TV.

 

[Fatboy148]

I'll say that the OP must be a real good friend to have around to consider doing this. I like the lift idea best, if the bedroom is on the second floor, getting the lift up and back down the stairs will be fun too!

 

[tff]

I was going to suggest a milder version of this.

(Don't try this in your home town).

 

[jd_1138]

A lift is the safe way to do it. They rent pretty cheap. I think somebody covered that a few pages back.
I still maintain the best way is to protect the wall and floor and yank it off while recording it for our entertainment.
No matter what I bet the edge of the shelf it's on is going to get damaged so you might as well make it worth our while. Just don't be under the damn thing.

Sometimes you suggest the best way to do something to a friend/relative, and they refuse to pony up the money to do it the right way. Even if it's only $40-$50 to rent the lift (and the money goes to support a local business). They have no idea about the physics, tools, mass involved, etc.. All they want is the job done cheaply as possible even if Good Samaritan ruptures a vertebrae and is in massive pain the rest of their lives.

I was at a friend's house 30 miles away helping a friend move some furniture. He had one of those massive heavy sectional couches that he wanted moved. I suggested going to HF 3 miles away to get 2 of those flat furniture dollies. $20 total or something. He refused. He wanted us to just try to manhandle it. The couch weighs like 700 pounds. I refused and said "go to HF and get the dollies; we don't want to F our backs up." He refused, so I just left.

Dude drives a $30,000 new car, but too cheap to drop $20 on needed tools. Screw him.

 

[rsanter]

Stuntmen jumping off buildings land safely on stacked empty cardboard boxes. A stuntman weighs about the same as this TV.

So just stack up empty cardboard boxes to the level of the TV, and push/pull it off the shelf.

This was my thought as well.
The boxes crushing will slow the fall of the TV

 

[ttpete]

This was my thought as well.
The boxes crushing will slow the fall of the TV

For this, I'd tape them all shut to hold air longer and absorb more energy before they burst.